I am the owner of multiple colors of hard hats and hi-vis vests. You’re going to want to get an orange/yellow bucket. These are the ones that crew wear. I.e. the people that don’t know what’s actually happening, they’re just “doing their job”. Don’t get white or any other color because those mean you know what’s happening and shouldn’t be working.
TIL there are colour-coded helmets on worksites. Makes sense, I suppose. If you need a first aider or something it’s probably easier to look for a particular colour helmet than just Jim.
A lot of the time you don’t even know Jim, never met him. So wearing the hat for what your job is let’s people know who to ask for what without everyone needing to know each other.
I don’t know everyone on my job sites wear white wide rimmed helmets and the crew owners typically wear the grey carbon fiber helmets, but then again we’re mostly electricians.
Small crews can use whatever they prefer. If you get on a big job with 1000+ people then color code really helps.
I don’t agree with this post.
I used to work next to a homeless shelter, and I got harassed by the homeless every day, I was threatened, chased, and I got mugged twice. I’m very uncomfortable around the homeless now.
Enabling the homeless to sleep in public spaces like park benches and in front of businesses doesn’t make them safer. It creates more conflict for them, leaves them exposed (to people and the elements), and worsens how the community sees them.
If you want to help, donate to your local shelters, missions, and food banks, or volunteer, and campaign for better treatment of them.
Don’t misguidedly create harmful situations like this. How do you think Joe cop is going to react seeing public benches “modified” and a homeless person sleeping there?
Enabling the homeless to sleep in public spaces like park benches and in front of businesses doesn’t make them safer. It creates more conflict for them, leaves them exposed (to people and the elements), and worsens how the community sees them.
And taking away the littlest comfort of not having to sleep on the cold floor next to the bench solves this how?
It doesn’t, providing spaces for them and working on improving access to help does.
How is letting them sleep on benches helping them?
A little thought experiment, since you’re having trouble following what should be a self evident line: would you rather sleep in your bed or on the floor, if you were forced to choose? Now if I swap your bed with a bench?
The only effective thing to do is get parties voted that enable general social safety. In countries where people don’t starve when they don’t have a job criminality is much lower.
The American public generally supports the kinds of policies we see in “good socialist” countries like the Netherlands, but our voting and representation system has locked in a right and far-right party. We’re going to have to get Approval Voting and Proportional Representation installed via referendum if we want the elected officials to actually represent the will of the people.
Just remember that if anyone asks, act irritated that you were called in on your day off because the guy who was supposed to do it fell sick, then catch yourself and say “anyway, no time to chat, I got a quota to meet” before grumbling about how you should have listened to your mother.
This is absolute gold.
